Typographical machine.



0. MUEHLEISEN. TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.2, 1913.

Patented Jan. 13, 1914.

UNlTED STATES PATENT ()FFICE."

CARL MUEHLEISEN, 0F BERLIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO MERGENTHALEB LINOTYPECOMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL hflum-rnnrsnn, a citizen of the United Statesof America, residing at 23 Chausseestrasse, Berlin, N. 4-, in the Empireof Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in TypographicalMachines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to typographical machines in which matrices,types, type dies and the like are distributed into channeled magazines,and it has for its object to provide improved means for preventing thesematrices etc., from entering the magazines in incorrect positions, orentering channels not intended for their reception.

For the sake of brevity the word matrices is herein intended to includematrices, types, type dies and other devices which are distributed intothe various channels of the magazines of a typographical machine.

The invention is intended to be used in conjunction with a magazinehaving a socalled magazine entrance which is capable of occupying twodifferent positions, in one of which it forms virtually an extension ofthe magazine for conducting into the latter the matrices as they leavethe distributer, and into the other of which it is moved when access isrequired to be had to the interior of the magazine for removingtherefrom or from the said magazine entrance any matrices which may havebecome jammed therein.

In magazines whose channels are not separated from each other bypartitions eX- tending from one to the other end of such magazines itmay happen that any matrices contained within the magazine emtrance atthe time the latter is moved away from the magazine, will fall from thesaid magazine entrance into the magazine and enter the latter in anincorrect position, that is to say, flatwise or with one of its lateraledges foremost; this would cause an obstruction within the said magazineand prevent the following matrices from descending therethrough andwould render it necessary to remove the obstructing inatrices by handthrough the upper end of the magazine.

The present invention prevents these obstructions occurring by providingguide blades immediately below the discharging or lower end of themagazine entrance these Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 2, 1913.

Patented Jan. 13, 1914.

Serial No. 739,700.

blades preventing the matrices from falling fiatwise into or enteringthe magazine channels in any but the correct way.

In the accompanying drawings :-Figure 1 is a vertical section ofsuiilcient of a typo graphical machine of the well-known Mergenthalerconstruction, to illustrate the application thereto of the presentimprovements, this view being that of a double magazine machine andshowing the devices in working position; Fig. 2 is a view similar toFig. 1, but showing the magazine entrance swung away from the magazineand one of the guide blades turned out of its normal position; Fig. 3 isa view of part of Fig. 2 viewed in the direction indicated by the arrowin the last named figure; and Fig. 1- is a plan of a detached partof thedevices shown in the other figures.

l and 2 are the upper parts of two maga: zines which are supported inwell-known manner on their respective magazine frames 3, 41-, and 5 and6 are the magazine entrances appertaining respectively to the saidmagazines 1 and 2, these magazine entrances being mounted so as to bemovable as a single entity along with a rigid frame 7 pivoted at 8 tothe magazine frame 4. To each of the magazine frames 3, 4, there issecured a frame 9; these two frames 9 are alike and therefore thefollowing description of one of them will apply equally well to both.The frame 9 is provided with a series of lugs 10 leaving between everyadjacent two of such lugs, a recess 11 in which is pivoted a guide blade12, a wire or pivot 13 passing through the whole of the lugs 10 andguide blades 12 serving as a common pivot for the whole of the latter.At its upper end the frame 9 is provided with a series of notches orrecesses 14.- alined with the recesses 11 and each, like the saidrecesses 11, serving to receive one of the guide blades 12. The guideblades 12, when in their normal position in which they are representedin Fig. 1, are at such distances apart, as shown in Fig. 8, that nomatrix could pass between them in any position other than a correct one.

hen, for any purpose, it is desired to have access to the interior ofthe magazines, the magazine entrances 5, 6, can be thrown backward inthe manner indicated in Fig. 2, and the guide blades 12 can then also,if desired, be swung backward away from the formed in one therewith.

The surfaces of the frames 9 with which the matrices come into contact,during their passage from the magazine entrances 5, 6, into themagazines, are preferably curved or otherwise formed so as to reduce asmuch as possible any tendency to obstruct the movement of the saidmatrices.

15 represents the distributer mechanism by which the matrices aredistributed into the respective channels of the magazines 1, 2; as thisdistributor mechanism constitutes no part of the present invention andits construction is already well known in the art, no furtherdescription thereof is deemed necessary.

Instead of the guide blades 12 being movable independently of each otherabout the common pivot 13, they may all be rigidly attached together soas to turn as a single entity about the said pivot.

Means have heretofore been provided for intercepting the passage throughthe magazines, of matrices which have entered such magazines inincorrect position; these means have been in the form of removable combsthe teeth or pins of which have penetrated the upper, and reached as faras the lower, walls of the magazines. The said upper walls however, haveusually been provided with ribs or bars extending foreand-aft, whichhave prevented the stop pins being applied uniformly throughout all ofthe magazine channels, and, at these parts, gaps have existed throughwhich matrices could pass while descending flatwise over the bottomwalls of the magazines.

The present invent-ion is in no way affected by the presence of theabove named ribs or bars and consequently the guide blades 12 can beapplied in one uninterrupted series extending throughout all thechannels of the respective magazine.

Having described my invention I declare that what I claim and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is 1. In a typographical machine, thecombination of a magazine, an entrance therefor provided with a seriesof partitions dividing it into channels, and a series of guide bladeslocated between the magazine and entrance and forming continuations ofthe partitions of the latter.

2. In a typographical machine, the combination of a magazine, anentrance therefor provided with a series of partitions dividing it intochannels, and a series of guide blades located between the magazine andentrance and forming continuations of the partitions of the latter, thesaid blades being supported so as to be movable from their operativeposition when desired.

8. In a typographical machine, the combi nation of a magazine, anentrance therefor provided with a series of partitions dividing it intochannels, and a series of guide blades located between the magazine andentrance and forming continuations of the partitions of the latter, thesaid blades being pivotally supported and movable independently fromtheir operative position.

4:. In a typographical machine, the combination of a magazine, anentrance therefor, and a series of guard members located between themagazine and entrance and serving to prevent the entrance of matricesinto the magazine in an improper position, the said guard members beingsupported indcpendently both of the magazine and entrance.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twowitnesses.

CARL MUEHLEISEN.

Witnesses HENRY HASPER, IVOLDEMAR HAUPT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

